283 Wings to Rotors: How you can start now to add a helicopter rating to your pilot certificate + GA News
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🗓️ 20 July 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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283 Wings to Rotors: How you can start now to add a helicopter rating to your pilot certificate + GA News
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283 Max talks about his experience getting a helicopter add-on rating, and how you can do it too. The FAA allows a fixed wing pilot to add-on a helicopter rating with 30 hours of helicopter time. For someone without a pilot certificate, they'll need a minimum of 40 hours of time. The add-on helicopter checkride for a pilot is relatively short compared to the checkride a non-pilot would have to do.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello again and welcome to Aviation News Talk where we talk in general aviation, |
| 0:05.7 | with relevant news and flying tips for pilots and student pilots to help keep you safe. |
| 0:09.6 | I'm Max Ruscott. |
| 0:10.7 | I'm the author of several books on the Garmin G-1000, 3,000, 5,000 in perspective, |
| 0:15.6 | and the 2008 National Flight Instructor of the Year. |
| 0:18.1 | First, I have some great news to share, which is that last |
| 0:21.6 | week I did something crazy that I never expected to do, which is I passed a check ride to become |
| 0:27.0 | a helicopter pilot. So today we'll be talking about what that was like for a fixed-wing pilot |
| 0:31.6 | to get a helicopter add-on rating and about steps you can start taking today to someday becoming |
| 0:36.6 | a helicopter pilot. |
| 0:38.1 | Last week in episode 282, we talked about the crash of a Citation 550 jet at the French Valley |
| 0:43.9 | Airport in Southern California. |
| 0:45.9 | So if you didn't hear that episode, you may want to check it out at aviation news talk.com |
| 0:49.7 | slash 282. |
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| 1:33.5 | Coming up in the news for the week of July 17th, 20203, 4Flight has a new feature, an iPad |
| 1:39.4 | is being blamed for a fatal helicopter crash, and some important new battery technology is |
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